The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-17
MORMON UNITY AND TRIBUNE
SOPHTSTRY.

Diphtheria is a fatal disease; it
chiefly attacks the young, aud origin
ates, it is supposed, from the poisonous
gases of defective sewerage. There is
a worse disease prevalent in this Terri
tory, a mental or moral affection, under
the fatal influence of which fairness
aud the judgment fade away and
perish.
Similarly to the other, it emanates
from the poisonous exhaletion of cess
pools of bigotry, putrid masses of false
hood, and from the leakages of an I'M
sound philosophy. The victim does
not die, but certain functions of the
brain cease, and the pitiabie sufferer
falls into the abyss of hate and preJu-
dice, as Blondin would have fallen into
the vortex of the Niagara if suddenly
deprived OF one end of that balance
pole the uniformity of which was so
essential to his safety. The chief
plague spot oHzhis malady is on Second
South Street; it's chief means OF com
munication is newspaper which
poses as the champion of Christian
ity, though inidel; as the censor
of morals, though advocating pros
-titution and the dram-shop as
prosely ting agencies for Mormon youth;
as the apostle of liberty while forging
chains sfor those whom it would
"free" from the bonds of union which
comes from the Injunction to "he OF
one heart and of one mind"
This is the Sabbath; the cares that
infest the week day have silently fed;
the mind turns, or should turn, to-
ward thoughts of religion and prejudice
should give place to charity. 1t is fit
occasion for Utah youths, particularly
those who have been poisoned by the
miasmatic Tribune, to review the past,
to go again over the points which. they
have fancied, lead in logical sequence
from Mormon doctrine to Mormon in
fanny; divest themselves of prejudice,
and the line of argument will prove to
be as unstable IS the Tay bridge on the
night of that fearful disaster. In the
spirit of justice, we desire to call atten-
ton to one vehemently and oft-re-
peated charge made against the Nor
mon people.
It has often been asserted by Liberals
that no one cares for polygamy; it is of
little consequence one way or the
other, but great objection lies to the
"blind obedience" of the Mormon
masses to the "dictation" of their lead
ers. It is assumed with great injustice
to the intelligence and history of the
Mormon people that they are dumb
and unthinking followers of the First
Presidency; it is not, say the Liberal
press in its effort to explain away an
obvious hostility to freedom, that we
object to popular rule, but thatwe are
hostile to q condition of affairs wherein
three men assisted by the votes of their
human cattle" control the destinies of
this Territory.
We would ask our candid readers If
there cannot be unity and obedience,
if you please to call it such, without
slaveryf 1t is possible that Mormon
unity is based upon reason, that Nor
mon obedience is but an illustration of
an almost universal rule among man
kind. If we find, therefore, that this
characteristic of Mormonism is
controlled by reason and confirmed by
analogy, we should have the candor to
submit to its exercise without frenzy,
and accord to the majority the rights of
the majority. We all know how spon-
taneously politics kindles and RACES in
the American bosom; how, on many
occasions, honesty and the whole list of
virtues have been compelled to give
way to political necessity. This should
suggest to the uninitiated, what Liberal
and Mormon have long appreciated,
that the quarrel here is not moral but
q poll teal battle. Cunningly manipu.
lating and distorting facts and nm
blushingly resorting to falsel God the
little clique of characterless and con-
scienceless adventures. comprising the
working element of the Liberal party.
have. through prejudice, made the
American public their coadjutors in an
unholy effort to secure minority rule.
The Tribune will, of course, construe
this into a wholesale calumny of the
Utah Gent;les; that is its method. but
We wish to reiterate that the gulf sepa-
rating the agitators from the rank and
file of Utah Gentiies. the adventurer
from the solid citizen, is an abyss. 1t is
none the less unfortunate that the latter
should to any degree, or even silently
lend themselves to the ruinous policy of
agitation. The sorehead COMPLAINS
that the Territory is unsettled. and vet
he is the only factor of disturbance.
that the millennium of business pros
perity is not upon US is because this
raVenous wolf will not lie down with